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How do you know this isn't a dream?
Pinch your nose so you cant breathe through it. If you can still breathe even though you're plugged up tight, you're dreaming baby. Note : might not work with a cold.
Also you can check the time, and see if it stays the same when you check it again.
Also mirrors. You look fucked in a mirror if you're dreaming.
Also "lOoK FoR tHe ReD bAAaLllLlL". I sarcasmatyped that one because it keeps coming up in tropes and its never once worked for me.
I'm gonna be real, something deep in me can't tell the difference. This reality has more emotional consequences (both good and bad) than dream reality though so I'm more careful here. I just kinda let that existential thought sit around off to the side and if I don't poke at it too hard it doesn't cause me any noticable harm
In a way, life is a dream, inasmuch as it's interpreted through the same wetware that dreams are. Much of the same stuff is at work at all times.
I think fairy tales and religious stories tickle something in us IRL because they have an almost dreamlike quality to them